Optimal resolution for a 19 inch CRT monitor?

[BFG10K]

It depends on the refresh rate but I run mine at 1600x1200 @ 85 Hz.

 

[yhelothar]

1600x1200 with large fonts...
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[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: VIAN

Could you elaborate by providing some optimal resolutions for dot pitches of say 0.24, 0.25, and 0.28?

Dot pitch is never uniform across the screen and you can't tell which one the manufacturer is specifying.

It can be. The problem is generally not the D.P. of the shadow-mask, but of the beam spot size when scanning the corners of the screen. Depending on how "flat" the screen surface is on the inside of the tube, and what kind of auto-focus circuitry is used, it could vary, but for good-quality displays it should be relatively uniform, AFAIK.

At least my 19" MAG was rather uniform-looking to me; I ran it at 1600x1200 all of the time, and text was readable, even in the corners of the screen. I could see the effects of different video cards though, in terms of the sharpness of highly-contrasting text. My ATI AGP RagePro was a little "soft" at that resolution, but my Matrox Mill. PCI and Permedia2 PCI (both with descrete TI RAMDACs) were still sharp.